Coat and hat hook.



No. 811,380. PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

H. E. COLLINS. COAT AND HAT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.19,1905.

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TO J. H. HARRISON,

OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COAT AND HAT HOOK..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed August 19, 1905. Serial No. 274,849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIoRATIo E. COLLINS, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat andI-Iat Hooks, of which the following is a specication, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a hat and coat hook provided with a pivotedlocking-arm arranged to be closed upon the hook to prevent the removalof a hat or coat placed upon the same except by the person holding thekey to unlock the arm 5 and the invention consists in the construction,arrangement, and combination of parts whereby a cheap and practicaldevice of this character is obtained, all as more fully hereinafterdescribed, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l isan elevation of my improved hat and coat hook. Fig. 2 is anotherelevation of the same, taken from the opposite side and shown on asmaller scale. Fig. 3 is a detached pers ective view-of the hook alone.Fig. 4 is a etached perspective view of the locking-arm, and Fig. 5 is asection on line a: :c in Fig. l.

A is the hook member, integrally cast with a back member B forattachment to a wall and with an enlargement forming the casino' C.

tD is the locking-arm, shapedto form a counterpart of the hook with anenlargement E at its inner end which forms a cover for the casing C. Inthe center of this enlargement is an orificeF, and surrounding thisorifice is a standing flange (or iianges) II, all so arranged that alock, as G, preferably a common form of the Yale type of drawer-lock,may be engaged with the enlargement, the keyhole-barrel of the lockprojecting through the orifice, While the casing of the lock is held infixed osition against rotation by the standing flange II.

The locking-arm is rotatively secured to the member C by means of twoheaded studs I, which pass loosely through slots J in the enlargement Eand are secured by rivet-heading into projections K upon the inner wallof the enlargement C, thev studs J being shouldered Where they pass intothe projections.

Upon the inner wall of the enlargement is l l i cast a projection L,which is adapted to engage with the lockingbolt of the lock, and therebyhold the arm against rotation when in its closed position.

The operation of my device is obvious from the description, it beingunderstood that the locking or unlocking of the arm D requires the useof the particular key fitted for the lock. It is in the particulararrangement and operation of this feature that my invention presents itsparticular novelty. First, it will be seen that my invention obviatesthe necessity of devising or employing a particular form of lock, sincemany forms of ordinary commercial locks would be available, and I choosea Yale lock merely as be ing particularly well adapted for my purpose.My device can for this reason be constructed much cheaper than if itdepended upon a lock of special construction. The aperture F is made tosuit the keyhole in the lock. By choosing a lock with a key-barrel andletting it project through it can be readily located. in the dark, andit may or may not be in the pivotal center of the arm. It will furtherbe observed that since the arm carries the lock the key in turning inthe lock will not only unlock the arm, but lift it, and when the arm isthus raised the key cannot be removed.

To identify each hook with its key, they are correspondingly numbered,the hook having preferably the number cast upon an eX- tension M.

While I have described my device as a "coat and hat hook, I use thisterm in a general sense and include its use for locking up handsatchelsand other portable property of like character.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In adevice of the character described, the combination of a fixed hookmember adapted -to be secured to the wall and rovided with anenlargement at the base ofthe hook forming a casing, of a pivotal armcarried by the hook member and provided with an apertured enlargement atits inner end forming the cover for said casing, means rotativelyconnecting said cover to the casing, a lock of the character describedinclosed in the casing and rotatively carried by the pivotal arm and aprojection in the Wall of the casing adapted to cooperate with the lock.

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2. ln a device of the character described, key is adapted to oerate thelock and oscilthe combination of a xed hook member nlate the arm7 and aockjng projection on the tegrally formed with a circular enlargementinner Wall ofthe casing cooperating with the forming a casing, a votalarm carried by lock. 15 5 the hook and ntegra ly formed With an en- Intestmonywhereof I aflx my signature largement forming a cover for thecasing of n presence of tWo Witnesses. `the hook, means rotatvelyconnecting said HORATO E COLLNS cover to the casing, a lock complete initself loosely inclosed Wlthn the casing and rota- Witnesses; xo tivelyheld therein by suitable connection J. HENRY HARRISON,

with the cover whereby the operation of the O'r'ro F. BARTHEL.

